A shooting outside of a Walmart Supercenter in Marietta, Georgia, has left 1 person injured, while shoppers inside say people were fleeing for the exits.
Police vehicles and crime scene tape are seen outside a Walmart store in Marietta, Georgia, on Wednesday, Dec. 7, following a shooting near the store's automotive center.
The circumstances leading up to the shooting are unclear, but Cohen said both sides knew each other and had an altercation. Gail Parks, who was inside the Walmart when the incident happened, told Fox5 Atlanta that,"I [heard] this guy yelling ‘Active shooter! Active shooter!’ and he was flying down the aisle running as hard as he could."
A police officer speaks to a woman outside the Georgia Walmart store following the shooting on Wednesday, Dec. 7."They were screaming ‘Active shooter! Active shooter!’ and immediately everyone stopped, grabbed their stuff and started running," added Melody Hipps, another shopper. Walmart employees and customers are seen gathered outside the store in Marietta, Georgia, after it was evacuated.
"We were responding as if it was an active shooter inside the store because that was the initial information we had, and we did evacuate the store as our normal protocol," Cohen said. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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